Chapter 1066 Garlic Fragrance
Xiao Peng wiped his hair and walked out of the bathroom: "Comfortable!"
Mr. Derrida directly threw a can of beer to Xiao Peng: "Here, let me make you feel more comfortable!"
Xiao Peng opened the can and drank it all in one gulp: "Great! You have no idea how I've been able to get through these past three months!"
Mrs. Derrida was rummaging through clothes. When she heard Xiao Peng's words, she asked curiously, "How did you get through the past three months?"
Xiao Peng sighed and said, "I ate seafood every day and ate lobsters until I vomited. This is a memory I can't bear to look back on."
“…” Both Derrida and his wife had dark lines on their faces.
Mrs. Derrida took a deep breath and asked, "Xiao, you know I'm German. Maybe my understanding of the word 'humor' is different from yours. Are you kidding me?"
"I'm telling the truth!" Xiao Peng pointed at a large lobster in the corner of the cabin and said, "Believe me, I won't touch that thing. It makes me sick!"
Xiao Peng caught this lobster when he left the "Island that witnessed the Derrida couple's 43-year loving marriage."
That's right! The Derridas gave that 'Daxia Island' such a vulgar name! Xiao Peng was so fed up with this dog food that he wanted to curse...
Mrs. Derrida took out two clean clothes and handed them to Xiao Peng: "My old man's clothes will definitely not fit you, so just wear them for now. Here, these are new underwear that have never been worn."
Xiao Peng thanked him and went to the cabin next to him to change his clothes. Mr. Derrida's clothes were a size too big for him, but he didn't mind at all. They were much better than what he wore on the island!
"Huh?" Xiao Peng walked out of the cabin and found Derrida and his wife looking at him with strange eyes: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Mrs. Derrida smiled and said, "We missed your cooking so much when we were traveling around the world! We spent the longest time in your country, and we just ate all kinds of food. Those are wonderful memories, but since we left there, we haven't eaten anything that we thought was delicious in over a year..."
Xiao Peng pointed at his nose in shock and said, "I was just rescued! How dare you let me be a chef?"
Mrs. Derrida took out a grapefruit and said, "How about this as a reward?"
Xiao Peng snorted coldly after seeing this, with a proud expression: "No! At least another pack of cigarettes! How about it? Can't you take it out?"
He said this because Mr. Derrida does not smoke, while Mrs. Derrida used to smoke but gave up smoking during the sailing trip.
That's why I said this on purpose, to give them a difficult problem.
Mrs. Derrida grinned, opened the door of a top cupboard, and took out two packs of cigarettes: "Here! Two for you!"
"Huh?" Xiao Peng looked at the smoke in front of him with a puzzled look on his face.
Mrs. Derrida said, "When we passed by your country, I remember you said your cigarettes were delicious. So we bought two as souvenirs. After all, the value of a gift to you doesn't lie in the price, right?"
Mr. Derrida said, "You've been stuck on the island for so long, so you should have given up smoking. Why are you smoking again?"
Xiao Peng spread his hands. "I'm preparing for life at sea! Well, actually, life is too boring, so I'm making it a little more difficult for myself. But I really admire you guys. Don't you think sailing is boring? I thought you would become two heavy smokers when you come back! I really didn't expect Mrs. Derrida to quit smoking."
Mr. Derrida smiled and said, "As long as she is by my side, no place is boring!"
Mrs. Derrida said: "I wanted to be with him longer and didn't want nicotine and tar to kill me, so I chose to quit smoking!"
Xiao Peng raised his hands high: "I surrender! As long as you don't feed me dog food, I can be your chef, right?"
As he spoke, he took the lobster to the corner of the kitchen in the cabin. The lobster waved its two big claws with full energy.
It is not accurate to call it a 'lobster', it is a South African lobster.
Lobsters and lobsters are actually two different species. The most famous species is the Boston lobster, which looks similar to the crayfish that Chinese people love to eat, but has two oversized claws on the front. Lobsters, on the other hand, lack those large claws! However, among the Daxia people, both types of shrimp are called "lobsters," or simply, if they're large enough, they're all lobsters!
This lobster weighs about six kilograms and is more than half a meter long. But to be honest, it is not considered big near the "Island that witnessed the Derrida couple's 43-year loving marriage." The largest South African lobster here weighs about ten kilograms.
But this lobster also has its advantages: it has already spawned.
Lobster eggs are held in the small claws under the lobster's belly. They are black all over and look very similar to the "pearls" in bubble tea, but they are smaller.
Xiao Peng peeled all the lobsters and placed them in a small bowl. Then, holding the lobster head with his left hand and the lobster body with his right hand, he twisted it hard, splitting the lobster in two. After draining the water from the lobster, Xiao Peng took the lobster head and poured out the contents with a spoon.
"What is this? It's black and white. It looks a bit disgusting!" asked Mr. Derrida.
Xiao Peng explained: "The white part is the shrimp brain, and the black part is the shrimp paste."
As he spoke, he peeled the lobster, took out the tender pink meat, removed the shrimp thread, and placed it on the right. He then used scissors to cut open the lobster head, removed the lobster's internal organs and gills, and asked Mrs. Derrida, "Mrs. Derrida, do you have a steamer here?"
"Of course!" Mrs. Derrida said directly. She had been captivated by Xiao Peng's scrambled eggs with tomatoes and had learned cooking techniques like steaming from him. The boat was fully stocked with Chinese cooking utensils and seasonings. "Do you want to steam this lobster?"
Xiao Peng said, "Don't worry! Where's the garlic?"
"There's a lot of it there!" said Mrs. Derrida. Garlic is also one of the souls of Chinese cuisine.
Xiao Peng peeled almost a dozen heads of garlic in one breath, and then chopped them into garlic paste. Then he poured oil into a hot pan and put onion shreds, star anise, cinnamon, and scallion segments into it to heat. After the scallion segments and onions turned yellow, he picked out the star anise, cinnamon and other ingredients from the pan and continued to fry them. After the onion shreds and scallion segments were fried dry, he took them out and turned off the heat, leaving only the oil. Then he poured the chopped garlic into it and kept stir-frying it. After the garlic turned golden yellow, Xiao Peng turned off the heat, poured sesame oil, salt and sugar into it and stirred it vigorously. The whole cabin was filled with the aroma of garlic.
"What is this?" Mr. Derrida was shocked. Whether it was Chinese food or their traditional cuisine, garlic was always a good thing to enhance the flavor, but this was the first time he had smelled such a smell in his life.
In the past, people used to say that garlic smelled bad, but now, for the first time, he could experience its fragrance.
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